PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Antología abierta de literatura hispana (Open Anthology of Hispanic Literature, AALH) is a collection of public-domain texts from the Hispanic world, with critical introductions and annotations in Spanish by undergraduate students in Julie Ward’s Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Culture course at the University of Oklahoma. The AALH is intended as a freely accessible digital resource for students of Hispanic literature, and proposes an inclusive, broad, and evolving definition of the canon. You can view the first edition of the collection here.

We are looking for collaborators who will implement the critical edition assignment in their own courses and submit the student-created critical editions for inclusion in future editions. An implementation guide is available for instructors who would like to replicate this assignment.

HELP NEEDED
We are looking for profs teaching Hispanic literature courses to implement a critical edition assignment for their students and to submit the student-created critical editions to expand the Antología abierta de literatura hispana (Open Anthology of Hispanic Literature, AALH).

We will also be looking for copy editors & proofreaders (fluent in Spanish) at a later date.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
If you are teaching a Hispanic literature course and are interested in running an assignment with your students to help to expand this anthology, comment below with your interest and any questions!

RELEVANT RESOURCES
Resources will be offered to support the implementation, which you can view in the implementation guide. These include:

Assignment brief

Marking rubric

Suggested assignment timeline

List of possible texts in public domain

Sample MOU for students

Guide to Creative Commons licensing for students

Community support from others running similar assignments

These resources are offered as a starting point only, and can be adapted to meet your course’s requirements.

RECOGNITION FOR CONTRIBUTORS
This project couldn’t happen without your participation. All contributing authors will be credited prominently in their chapter, the book, the metadata and promotional materials. All editors, reviewers and other contributors will also be credited.

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Want to help create an open anthology of Hispanic literature & explore #openpedagogy at the same time? Find out how: http://bit.ly/openAALH

Hi @lakebrenda11, thanks so much for getting in touch! We’re in the process of putting together the resources for the assignment at the moment, so I’ll let you know as soon as those are ready to take a look at. In the meantime, @wardjulie can answer any questions you have (although I believe she’s somewhere in the Peruvian wilderness right now, so might not reply immediately!).

Hi! I am Professor of Spanish at York College/CUNY and in the fall I am teaching the 300 level course on Cervantes. I would love my students to participate in this project. Please let me know how we can be part of this. Depending on the semester I also teach survey courses of Peninsular Literature too. I look forward to hearing from you. My email is mballantyne@york.cuny.edu

Hi @mballantyne! Thanks for your interest, we’d love to have you and your students contribute to this anthology.

I believe @wardjulie is still travelling for the moment, but I will give you and @lakebrenda11 access to a shared drive with the first of the assignment documents we have prepared. Julie has also started writing about her experience with the project here.

The folder mainly contains the documents that Julie used to run the assignment in her own class:

Edición Crítica Assignment Sheet

Critical Edition Checklist

Ejemplo Formato Edición Crítica

The plan is to create editable/flexible versions of these documents that can be adapted to any class or course, but for now they are hopefully a useful starting point.

You will also see in-progress drafts of the following that we are developing at Rebus to be resources for any faculty working with students on open textbook projects:

A guide to Creative Commons Licenses

An MOU between faculty & participating students

Once Julie is back, we’ll touch base again and talk in more detail. Thanks again for joining us!

Hola todos,
I can see that this project is just beginning, but I’d like to chip in. I am a native spanish speaker and particularly well-read in 20th Century latin american literature. My main interest is in fantastic realism a la Borges and Cortázar.

I’d be more than happy to facilitate access to important texts as well as general proofreading.

Hi all, we have some exciting updates to share with you! The first critical edition collection of the AALH created by @wardjulie and her students is now available for use in your classrooms! Take a look at it here, and let us know what you think!

As well, we’re looking for instructors to run a similar assignment in their upcoming courses and produce student-created critical editions to expand the AALH. Julie has prepared a comprehensive implementation guide for faculty who will be conducting the assignment. Let us know if you are interested or if you have any questions by replying here!

Hello colleagues,
I’m teaching a survey of Latin American literature at Oxnard College in California this Fall 17. I’ve taught the class several semesters, and I’ve prepared a lot of material that I’d be happy to share. I’d also like to pilot some of the activities of the Antología with my students and share results, and contribute to this great initiative in any way. cmilan@vcccd.edu

@cmilan Hi Cecilia, that’s fantastic to hear! We’d love to see the materials you have. If you haven’t looked at it already, here is the implementation guide that Julie ( @wardjulie ) has prepared. You can ask her any specific questions pertaining to that document. If you like, we can even set up a call with Julie to talk about it in more detail.

@cmilan I’m sorry for the delayed response – just finished the first week of classes and got a little behind in communications in the excitement. Thanks so much for your interest! I’ll send you an email.

Following Julie’s implementation guide closely, I am assigning a critical edition group project this semester in my intro to textual analysis course at William Jewell College. This is the first course in our Spanish major and includes prose and poetry from Spain and Latin America from a range of time periods. Hopefully we’ll end up with some quality submissions to be included in the AALH.

@david.lisenby2 That’s great, thank you so much! As well, welcome to the Rebus Community! We’re looking forward to seeing the edition you and your students put together. I wonder if you have been in touch with Julie ( @wardjulie ) already? If you haven’t, please let me know and I can connect you both. This way you can direct any specific questions to her.